The Best Golf YouTube Channels for Beginners

There are thousands of golf videos on YouTube. You don’t need thousands.

A beginner is better off with a small group of channels that each do one job well: teach the basics, explain strategy, show realistic amateur golf, help with equipment research and remind you that the game is supposed to be enjoyable.

1. Me and My Golf — best overall for complete beginners

Piers Ward and Andy Proudman are the easiest recommendation if you want one channel to take you from “how do I hold the club?” towards actually playing golf.

The strength is structure. Their beginner material covers setup, basic swing movement, iron contact, driving, chipping, putting and practice without forcing you to stitch together twenty unrelated videos.

That matters. YouTube gets messy when you search for a new fix after every bad shot.

2. Golf Sidekick — best if your main goal is lower scores

Golf Sidekick is the channel I’d send to a beginner who has spent too much time thinking about swing mechanics and not enough time thinking about where the ball should actually go.

The channel is built around course management: safer tee clubs, sensible targets, lay-ups, avoiding penalties and accepting that bogey can be a good result.

That advice can help immediately. You don’t need to rebuild your swing to stop firing at a flag tucked behind a bunker.

The breaking-100 material is the obvious starting point. It gives beginners a much more realistic model of good golf than professional highlights.

3. Not A Scratch Golfer — best for seeing what ordinary good golf looks like

Adam Fine’s videos are valuable because they challenge one of golf’s most annoying myths: that you need a beautiful swing to score well.

You see full rounds condensed into something watchable, including misses, recoveries and the decisions that stop a bad shot becoming a disaster hole.

For beginners, the useful part is rarely the final score. Watch the targets, club choices and recoveries.

It’s a much better lesson in how to actually play golf than endlessly analysing whether your backswing looks “on plane”.

4. Danny Maude — best for simple swing instruction

Danny Maude is a strong choice if technical golf language makes your brain switch off.

His teaching often uses movement, feel and simple drills rather than trying to make every golfer copy a static position.

The filmed lessons are particularly useful because you can see real golfers misunderstand a movement, hit poor shots and need a different explanation.

That makes the coaching feel much more believable than a perfect before-and-after montage.

5. Fore Bros — best for UK golf banter and amateur competition

Fore Bros is the strongest entertainment recommendation on this list for UK golfers.

The matches, trips and recurring competitions work because the group contains different personalities and different levels of golf. You get good shots, awful shots, confidence swings, meltdowns and enough competitiveness to make the games matter.

Ronan is a major part of the appeal. His reactions, confidence and frustration make the videos genuinely funny, while his improvement content gives beginners something relatable beneath the comedy.

You’re watching golfers who care about getting better without pretending amateur golf is ever completely under control.

It isn’t an instruction channel, so don’t copy every recovery shot or club choice. Some decisions make sense because they’re trying to win a match, and some make sense because risky golf is entertaining.

6. Rick Shiels Golf — best broad golf subscription

Rick Shiels is the “bit of everything” option.

His older instructional library is still useful for beginners, while the current channel mixes matches, challenges, travel, equipment and wider golf entertainment.

That makes it a good channel to follow if you’re new to the whole sport rather than just looking for lessons.

The downside is that the main channel no longer behaves like a beginner curriculum. Search the archive when you want instruction instead of assuming the latest upload is where you should start.

7. Pádraig Harrington — best instruction from an elite player

Pádraig Harrington gives you something unusual: detailed golf instruction from a three-time major champion who is still happy to explain basic movement, grip, strike and practice.

He has strong opinions and tends to explain why he believes something works.

Beginners who swing too cautiously may especially enjoy his emphasis on movement, freedom and speed.

There’s more detail here than on some beginner channels, so don’t try to absorb everything in one sitting. Take one practical idea and leave the rest for later.

8. H.I.T Golf — best for equipment research

H.I.T Golf is Rick Shiels’ equipment-focused channel, and separating reviews from the broader entertainment content makes it easier to research a specific purchase.

Use it to understand what a club is trying to do, how models differ and which type of player they’re aimed at.

Ignore the exact distance numbers.

A reviewer with more speed and better contact than you may make a compact iron or low-lofted driver look far easier to use than it would be in your hands.

The best use of any review is to build a shortlist before testing the equipment yourself.

9. Peter Finch Golf — best for strong-player course vlogs

Peter Finch combines course vlogs, challenges, matches and instruction with enough coaching background to make the playing content useful.

Beginners can learn from his club selection, wind decisions, recovery shots and course preparation.

His course content is the better entry point if you want to see how a strong golfer thinks rather than simply how they swing.

As with any skilled player, don’t copy the ambitious recovery shot just because they managed to pull it off.

A few channels worth adding for the wider game

No Laying Up is excellent for golf travel, course architecture and understanding why golfers become obsessed with places as much as scores. Tourist Sauce and Strapped are the obvious entry points.

Random Golf Club presents golf through community, courses and people. It’s a good antidote if traditional golf culture feels intimidating.

Bad Golf, with John Robins and Alex Horne, is worth watching after a terrible round. It’s a reminder that amateur golf can be frustrating, competitive and very funny at the same time.

Good Good is strong entertainment, especially if you like team games and fast-paced challenges. The players are generally too good and too long for their course strategy to be a direct beginner model, but the formats are fun.

What about professional tour channels?

PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA Tour and major-championship channels are useful if you want to become a fan of professional golf.

They’re much less useful as a beginner instruction plan.

Highlights naturally remove routine pars, safe lay-ups, ordinary misses and most of the boring decisions that actually make up a round.

Watch extended coverage occasionally if you want a better feel for how professional golf really unfolds.

The five-channel beginner setup

That combination gives you enough variety without turning YouTube into a second full-time job.

Adding another five swing instructors probably won’t help.

If you’re trying to break 100

Put Golf Sidekick and Not A Scratch Golfer at the top of your queue.

Use Me and My Golf for short-game basics, then look at selected Rick Shiels or Danny Maude videos when you have a specific contact problem.

Spend more time watching people keep tee shots in play, choose sensible targets and recover safely.

Spend less time watching golfers shape draws, chase maximum speed or hit specialist wedge shots you don’t currently need.

If you’re researching equipment

Start with H.I.T Golf, then compare with other reviews before buying.

Look at the intended player, forgiveness, loft options, shaft choices, price and performance on poor strikes.

Don’t choose a club because one reviewer hit the longest drive of the day with it.

If you mainly want to become a golf fan

Fore Bros, No Laying Up, Peter Finch, Random Golf Club and Bad Golf give you five very different versions of the sport.

You’ll get amateur competition, travel, strong-player golf, community stories and British comedy.

That matters because becoming interested in golf is part of sticking with it.

Don’t subscribe to ten different swing systems

Different coaches can teach different grips, releases, backswing lengths and body movements and still produce good golfers.

The problem starts when you combine half of one method with half of another without understanding either.

For technical instruction, choose the coach whose explanation makes sense and whose drills produce a useful result.

Stay with that voice for a few practice sessions before changing.

How I’d judge any golf channel

A dramatic title isn’t automatically a problem. The video still has to earn your trust.

The best channel for a beginner isn’t the one with the most advanced swing analysis. It’s the one that gives you a useful idea, gets you away from the screen and makes you want to play again.